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Dedicated Lines - Sub panel or no?

Hi folks,

In a few months time I will be moving to a new home, where a spare bedroom and an understanding wife will enable me to enjoy the luxury of a dedicated listening room.

The first thing that comes to mind is installing 4 dedicated 20A lines. The breaker panel is on the ground floor, the room is on the 3rd.

I'm wondering which is better:

-to run all four lines from the breaker box all the way to the wall outlets,

-or install a sub-panel (is that the right term?) in the room, and use a single, very heavy guage line from the breaker box to the subpanel, then run 4 short lengths of 10 or 12 gauge from the subpanel to the outlets.

Thanks in advance for your advice

Kind Regards
Mick
mickey_sg

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I don't know which way would be better,but I run a dedicated sub panel off the main breaker box also.
i believe the cable from the main panel is 7 or 6 gauge.
She's run into the sub panel where all the wiring is 10 gauge,
and to the receptacles also.I had 8X15a breakers on there and the I put 2X240V recptacles in for my TorusX2 and that left me with 4 receptacles with their own separate breakers.The main breakers on the main panel are 2X40a dedicated breakers that feed the sub panel.I don't get any noise what so ever,but I might give the 2X240 and 4Xreceptacles their own line each instead of all of them feeding off the 6-7 gauge.
It's nice to know that they each have unlimited access,even if we don't use it all.Nothing like a busy freeway.
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